Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of 200 cars followed the hearse along crowd-lined avenues, past embassies with flags flying at half-staff. Crossing the Potomac into Virginia, the procession stopped at the cemetery gate, where an iron-tired Army caisson with six grey horses waited to carry to the grave the body of the statesman, sometime (1917-18) major, U.S. Army. With an Army-Navy-Air Force color-guard marching ahead, and the flag of the U.S. Secretary of State flying bravely behind, the caisson rolled slowly up the hill to the grave site on a grassy knoll near a yellowwood tree...
Elder Son John Watson Foster Dulles, a mining engineer in Mexico City, will receive $100,000 and, at his mother's death, half her estate. Daughter Lillias Dulles Hinshaw, wife of a Manhattan publicist and a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, will receive the other half of Janet Dulles' estate, also gets $10,000 outright, plus forgiveness of a mortgage held by her father. Dulles' three sisters are each to get $10,000; William C. Pierce and Henry N. Ess III, his law partners in the Manhattan firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, will get $25,000 each...
...elections for the first government of the State of Singapore, the left-wing People's Action Party swept 43 of the 51 seats. Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, 44, the able young trade unionist who established peace in the island after the bloody 1955 riots by jailing half a dozen leaders of the P.A.P.'s Communist wing, failed utterly in last-minute efforts to unite the moderate and right-wing parties in a "grand coalition to stop the rampaging P.A.P...
After an audit of his income taxes paid in the past twelve years, Actor William ("Bud") Abbott, 63, surviving half of the Abbott & Costello comedy team, was mowed down by revenooers. Conceding that his arrears total about $500,000, Taxpayer Abbott lamented that he is out of cash, his $125,000 ranch, his financial interest ($100,000) in old movies, his house (up for sale on Uncle Sam's orders) and friends. Said he of old acquaintances who forgot: "All my so-called pals suddenly don't know me any more-now that the booze has stopped flowing...
First couple out to the right, Circle half and don't you blunder, Inside arch and the outside under, Dip in and you dive and don't be slow...